benefits from exposure to "privileged" peers accrue mainly to "disadvantaged" students. These benefits decline when the …

We investigate whether tests taken during a high stakes grade by German primary and secondary students produce higher …

the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …

inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …

after grandchildren and provide financial or material gifts to children more than paternal grandparents do. In exchange …, daughters help their parents with personal care, household tasks and paperwork more than sons do. The matrilineal advantage is …

pushed by the reforms to increase their years of education. -- education ; lifetime income ; early conditions ; Europe …